Thanks for all your help. I have all the wills from Keddie and Dryden and orphans records from Oc museum. The only books i am lacking is Dryden Wo Cty land records and those pesky marriage licenses in your book. I also have ancestry.com for the census and I am reading all the deeds online at that archives site. This will sort itself out! thanks again Liz ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:02:20 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [LDR] land tract Huntington DELIAH Bowen Since one of the Whittington Bowen's married Delilah Selby, possibly she was the daughter of this Jesse and Ellenor? He is shown as Witty in the marriage records, and I cannot tell if he was a third Whittington or not. In the Orphans Court records there is shown a Whittington Senior, and the Whittington who married Rachel is shown as Whittington Junior at first, and then as just plain old Whittington, suggesting that perhaps the Senior one may have died (he was adult in the 1780s). So, possibly this Witty is a third one? It is easier when they said "John Doe of James". Elizabeth In a message dated 7/16/2010 4:36:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: it in 1783> In 1785 John Burbage sold to Ellenor Selby wife of Jesse Selby for £400 farm called Huntingdon of 130 acres according to the courses of a deed from Robert Cornwell, John Cornwell and Mary their mother to John Burbage of Somerset County dated 11 November 1718; this in Worcester County about three miles back from the Assateague Bay (Worc L:258). One of the two Whittington Bowens married Rachel Jenkins, daughter of John (d. 1757) and they were living in 1811. Rachel was the widow of Patey Truitt (d. 1781). One of the Whittington Bowens was the son of William Bowen and Rhoda Fassitt and he had a son Whittington Bowen which is the one I have marrying Rachel Jenkins. However, until your post, I didn't know there were two Whittington Bowens alive in 1810, so I am not sure of anything. Sometimes land commissions were held when some of the heirs claimed the land could not be divided equally or some heirs didn't want the land to be sold, so I guess that's a dispute. Sometimes it was "heired" property and there were so many heirs that if it were divided equally, each one would have so little as to be almost useless, at least for farming. Other times, a land commission was to determine boundaries which were uncertain. If you picked up a mention of a land commission from a deed, maybe there's a mention of who sued whom on the MSA site which might help enough without ordering the record and of course you will need that info to order the record if the list of who sued whom is not sufficient. I empathize with your mention of the unattached Bowens. I have a bunch of unattached ones as well. Although I descend from William Bowen (d. 1728), it is via two of his daughters, so I have not worked on the Bowen family to any great extent. Becky ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, July 15, 2010 8:08:31 PM Subject: [LDR] land tract Huntington DELIAH Bowen I just read a deed February 7, 1810 (Worcester Liber AB folio 99) whereby one Whittington Bowen with wife Delilah sells Huntington formerly possessed by Eli Bowen to Stuart Williamson. And on Plats.net they show a land commission for Huntington "estate of Nelly Bowen" 1811. Has anybody heard of this Delilah Bowen? The only thing I know about Huntington is that John Burbage owned most of it in 1783 and Jesse Jones d. 1800 (whose widow is Polly, probably wife of Eli Bowen below) owned 7 or so acres of it. The more I look at these unattached Bowens the more surprises. Who knew there was a Delilah, wife of Whittington Bowen in 1810! (note there are TWO Whittington Bowen's in the 1810 census. - one probably who has wife Rachel and the other one unknown). Doesn't a land commission mean that there is a dispute? If I have to pay another $35 to find out what this is I will be very unhappy! Thanks all for your patience. Liz I have a will for this Eli Bowen: Eli Bowen 12 January 1810 To wife Polly Bowen - livestock, wheat, flax spinning wheel, cradle To daughter Polly Bowen - two beds, livestock, Negro girl, looking glass, note on Schoolfield Bradford To son Selby - bed, desk, two chests, Negro boy Isaac, all the chairs, plow To brothers George and Whittington Bowen - heifer, ox cart, cross cut saw, hand saw, ax, wedge Executor: William Jones "to keep the property belonging to my son Selby in his hands until he arrives to age and that he bind him out to a trade when he is nine years old and to be bound untill he is eighteen years old, a shoe maker trade." Witness: Stuart Williamson, Josiah Collins, Bowdoin Hammond 19 January 1810 Then came *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? 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